June has found us in the middle of so many different things. My June Take Twelve layout captures just how busy we've been at times. Cami and I traveled to Lexington to transport Cass back and forth between two summer activities -- the State FFA Convention and a Governor's Cup academic team camp. Here's a look at my layout. Have you been participating in Take Twelve? You can share your layouts and photos in the Flickr pool, and this article by Jennifer Wilson of Simple Scrapper is definitely a must-read.
layout credits: 2012 Photo Templates Vol. 1, 2012 Digital Kit
I'm working on a few layouts of our Lexington trip -- Cami and I LOVED Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill. We spent time with all the farm animals and toured the Kentucky River on the Dixie Bell paddleboat before exploring the 1800's settlement at Fort Harrod.
Cass had a really successful week, too. At the Governor's Cup camp -- also referred to as "nerd camp" around here -- she was recognized as the FPS Quick Recall champion, the FPS Team competition runner-up, and the Best Overall FPS Student runner-up. (Here's a link to info about FPS if you are curious.)
She also placed 3rd in the state in the FFA Sheep Impromptu speaking contest, which is a great accomplishment for such a young student (she's just finished her freshman year) and particularly one with no real-life sheep experience. For those of you not familiar with the FFA (Future Farmers of America) and the speaking contests, the Impromptu contests work like this: You have up to twelve topics in your subject area to study and gather resources on. The subject areas cover all the livestock classes, plus small animal, nursery, floriculture, turf & lawn, and others. The topics are things like preventing diseases, managing your flock, controlling internal and external parasites -- things that someone raising sheep would need to know about in order to have a successful herd. So once you have your resources gathered, which is done in the weeks leading up to the contest, you head into the competition room and draw two topics. You choose one of the two topics and then are given twenty minutes in which to prepare a 4-6 minute speech. At the end of that twenty minutes, you present your speech in front of a panel of three judges.
Just a couple of shop reminders too: my CT CALL is still going on, so go ahead and get an application sent in by the 24th. My Whiteout paper pack is still FREE in the shop until midnight tonight, and there's still a coupon code availabe on the Scrapbooks Etc. blog that can be used in my shop until the end of the month.
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